Jessica Stovall was born in Memphis, TN and grew up in Brandon, MS. She attended Belhaven University and earned her Bachelor’s degree and later attended Louisiana State University Shreveport where she earned her Master’s in Business Administration. Jessica has been married to her husband Mark for 12+ years and they have four children, Andrew (10), Annalyce (7), Ady Rae (4) and Anthony (2). Jessica has one bonus son, Jon Mark and a daughter in law, Sally who recently had their first baby and made Jessica a young granny! Jessica works full-time for a large healthcare organization as a Credentialing Coordinator, but her heart and her passion belongs to ministry. Jessica experienced the battle of drug and alcohol addiction at a young age and by the grace of God, a little jail time, 1 judge, 5 treatment centers and the love of a co-dependent momma, got clean 02/23/2007! Being a member of the long-term recovery community, Jessica lives to serve and to help others find freedom. Jessica established a branch of The Net ministry, which is a one on one mentoring program that services the female inmates in the Lafayette County jail in February 2022. Jessica also services as the team cheerleader and prayer warrior on the Story Tellers Live-Oxford Podcast team. Jessica is an extrovert and an enneagram 7 so people are her jam! Her hobbies include serving in her local church, going on annual vacations with her family, going on rare dates with her husband and Burn Boot Camp.
Questions we discuss during our chat:
-How did you find yourself wrapped up in addiction at such an early age?
-How did you come to know the Lord and be known by Him?
(John 10: 4)
-When did you start to feel like you were being lead into ministry?
-What is one thing you want people to know when a person is caught in the trap of addiction?
-How can the church do a better job at loving on the unhealthy people? (Luke 5:31)
